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Mother who pushed kids from moving car, killed partner was astrology influencer disturbed by eclipse

Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse.

The astrology influencer and “divine healer” who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online called the upcoming astronomical event “the epitome of spiritual warfare” and told people they needed to “pick a side,” in posts on X on April 4.

Less than three days later, in the early morning before the partial solar eclipse, Johnson left a trail of tragedy in her wake: her partner stabbed to death in the kitchen of the family apartment in Woodland Hills, her 8-month-old baby dead after being pushed from Johnson’s moving Porsche Cayenne on the 405, and Johnson herself dead after crashing her car on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach.

seth ,

Qualifications required for being a divine healer:

Roflmasterbigpimp ,
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I would say you need to be at least in some form out of your Mind, so that might be a Qualification.

Justas ,
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Eclipse without protection: not even once.

unreasonabro ,

I mean, that wasn’t a conspiracy theory, her religion lead her to do that. Raving about the apocalypse and trying to get raptured and shit

The nutjobs are the real idealists, and yet they always hate the left wing and support the me-me-me guys. What gives?

skeezix ,

Darwin hath spoken.

some_guy ,

At least she was kind enough to get herself killed in the process. Fucking nutters are on conspiracy steroids since the pan.

triclops6 ,

She got the order wrong. She should have started with herself

TurtleJoe ,
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Under the Ayoka moniker, Johnson issued a torrent of antisemitic screeds, conspiracy theories and alarmist warnings on Thursday and Friday. These included a repost of a debunked apocryphal speech attributed to Ben Franklin about how Jewish people “depreciated” societies wherever they settled, a video about Jews promoting pedophilia in the entertainment industry, and unproven theories about the origin of COVID-19.

This is qanon shit. Don’t know why OP didn’t include it in their excerpts of the article.

Stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I didn’t include it because it wasn’t in the first three paragraphs. My excerpt is literally the beginning of the article.

UnfortunateShort ,

A great reminder that not every astrologist is after your money. Some are also just complete maniacs.

Frozengyro ,

She was driving a Porsche, definitely was after people’s money too.

TurtleJoe ,
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She also offered a $6.99 per month home purifying cleanse that stripped people’s residences of “stagnant energy,” citing better sleep and an increased “vibration” as some of the benefits. Activating the service was simple: purchase the cleanse, get a piece of paper and title it “home purifying cleanse” and write your address on it. Then tuck it away in a safe place, she wrote.

Definitely a grifter.

lennybird ,
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Reminds me of that flat-earther Behind The Curve documentary. Such conspiracy theorist and woowoo believers basically fall into the grifted, and the grifters. Those outcast and outsiders who lack critical-thinking skills and who find community in like-minded eccentrics, and the ones just exploiting the gullible for money.

Similar with maga cult, too.

Sam_Bass ,

In her defense she was left unsupervised

BigTrout75 ,

Some serious mental illness

BabyYodel ,

Those poor babies. Who the fuck throws an 8 month old and 9 year old out of a moving vehicle on the freeway?! What a monster. I hope that 9 year old girl is able to heal from this… by some miracle. Such a senseless tragedy.

KevonLooney ,

They won’t. People don’t recover from things like this. Just hope they can find a loving relative to live with and come to terms with it later.

BabyYodel ,

Sadly, I’m sure you’re right about that.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Holy fuck that was a lot.

Patches ,

Probably the most work an influencer ever performed in one day.

the_third ,

I dunno. Whoring oneself out 24/7 for whatever brand is paying the bills that month does sound exhausting.

mriormro ,
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I want you to know that you whore yourself out to your employer just the same.

the_third ,

Oh, nothing against whoring out, we all do, but in my case I can at least leave it at that after about eight hours.

Sludgehammer ,
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with more than 100,000 followers on X who liked her increasingly worrying messages.

It’s all happening on X!

lorkano ,

It’s happening on every platform, don’t look for one to blame

Sludgehammer , (edited )
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Yeah, I was mainly just mocking Linda Yaccarino’s attempt to force “It’s all happening on X” as a catchphrase while the site spirals down the drain. That being said, while the amount of crazy and hatred seems to be going up on every platform, X seems to be outperforming most other sites at becoming a toxic cesspit.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
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Jesus christ!

pythonoob ,

She did us a favor by killing herself it’s just unfortunate she took others with her on the way out

kn0wmad1c ,
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Why does anyone need an “astrology influencer”

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Desperate escapism?

Weirdfish ,

This is certiably a phrase / concept the world would be better off without.

Takes two of my least favorite things, mysticism and internet points, and rolls them into a real shit sandwich

nifty ,
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Secular people, or people without religious membership, tend to look for substitutes.

We need normalization of post-graduate secular community organizations that have a set schedule of yearly events, and regular, ideology based meeting times. The Freemasons kind of come to mind, but they have their own set of historical issues. Something like co-ed fraternities for non-college going adults, but without superstitious concepts associated with membership. The only criteria should be “no conning other people” or something similar.

The Satanic temple has done a good job of framing a reasonable humanitarian charter, but I don’t like their religious movement framing. Supernatural concepts and superstition needs to be removed from such community membership.

sepulcher ,

A certain group of people tends to believe in this stuff more than others.

Reddfugee42 ,

Here’s the cool part: they don’t

dual_sport_dork ,
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Anyone who unironically begins a statement with “WAKE UP” all in caps like that can safely be assumed to, shall we say, have a tenuous grasp on reality.

dudinax ,

WAKE UP the sea surface temperature anomaly is far exceeding last year’s and last year’s was record breaking.

Huschke ,

Don’t look up down!

fishos ,
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It still implies you’re the only person aware of it and not like that very article on global temps was on the front page today. So yeah, it actually does make you seem a bit crazy.

VirtualOdour ,

WAKE THE FUCK UP SAMURAI, We Have a City To Burn.

fishos ,
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Adding “the fuck” or “mother fucker” changes it, I think.

sepulcher ,

Yeah. I’ve noticed the most boring people tend to have the most valuable things to say.

It’s those who oversensationalize things that are trying to take you for a ride.

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